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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko AT nexgo DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Win7 system update hosed something in Cygwin
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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:58:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: <5D571D62.5040104@tlinx.org> (L. A. Walsh's message of "Fri, 16	Aug 2019 14:17:22 -0700")
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L A Walsh writes:
> If you don't have /etc/passwd or /etc/group, cygwin will generate
> DOMAIN+USER entries dynamically each time you start cygwin (or per-boot)
> if you have cygwin processes started at boot.

This is wrong.  Cygwin never "generates" those nor do they change, they
are coming from the DC.  I do think they get cached if you run
cygserver, but I'm not sure about that.

> If you want consistency -- same user names+id's with each boot and
> MS-Win compatible names, you may want to create /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group using mkpasswd, mkgroup and hand tuning.  It isn't
> suggested for most users, but it may be something you want.

There aren't very many situations where you'd still need either of
those, especially not if your machine is a domain member.


Regards,
Achim.
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